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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2021
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Feng Li, Lexington, MA (US);
Haim S. Ner, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Bjorn Olof Erland Kalderen, South Orange, NJ (US);
Kevin J. Marnik, Bethel Park, PA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Techniques for reducing network congestion are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, by a computing device, a packet from a sender over a network; retrieving, by the computing device, congestion information; inserting, by the computing device, congestion data representing the congestion information into a header option of the packet to generate an augmented packet; transmitting, by the computing device, the augmented packet to a receiver; receiving, by the computing device, a response packet, the response packet including the congestion data; and transmitting, by the computing device, the response packet to the sender.